Deployment

Recipes

Jade

Jade is a markup language that removes the ceremony with creating XML based files (such as .html or .xml files). Jade works extremely well with Harp.

Why?

It is terse and very powerful. If you are creating XML based output (such as HTML) we strongly recommend giving Jade a shot. Avoid Jade if you are creating something other than an XML based files such as .json or .txt files. If that is the case you may find EJS to be a more logical choice.

Usage

Harp's Asset Pipeline is super easy to use. All the pre-compiling happens
implicitly so there is nothing to setup. Just name your file with a .jade extension instead of .html and the Harp web server will see it as if it is an .html file.

Example

In our project we have a index.jade and a about.jade file in our public directory.

myproject/
|- harp.json
+- public
|- index.jade
+- about.jade

Both index.jade and about.jade will be seen as a .html file so requests to the following paths will all work.

/

/index

/index.html

/about

/about.html

Harp's compile step will also export the files as index.html and about.html

Managing File Extension

You may find yourself wanting to create a file other than html using jade. No problem, just prefix .jade with the extension of your choice. For example feed.xml.jade will be seen as feed.xml.